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The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 3

The Princess, on finding herself in an eagle’s talons, uttered the most heart-breaking shrieks and cries; but her captor, though touched by her distress, would not abandon his lovely prey, and continued to fly through the air too fast to allow of his saying anything to comfort her.

Who acts: Princess, eagle · What happens: find, utter, touch, not abandon, continue, fly · To what, where: Princess, talons, breaking shrieks, lovely prey, air, anything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, eagle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

detnsubjpunctmarkaclobjcasedetnmod:posscaseoblpunctdetadvmodcompoundpunctcompoundobjccconjpunctccnmod:possoblpunctmarkparataxiscasenmod:possoblpunctauxadvmodconjnmod:possamodobjpunctccparataxismarkxcompcasedetobladvmodadvmodmarkadvclmarknsubjadvclobjmarkaclobjpunctrootTheDETPrincessPROPN,PUNCTonSCONJfindingVERBherselfPRONinADPanDETeagleNOUN’sPARTtalonsNOUN,PUNCTutteredVERBtheDETmostADVheartNOUN-PUNCTbreakingNOUNshrieksNOUNandCCONJcriesNOUN;PUNCTbutCCONJherPRONcaptorNOUN,PUNCTthoughSCONJtouchedVERBbyADPherPRONdistressNOUN,PUNCTwouldAUXnotPARTabandonVERBhisPRONlovelyADJpreyNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJcontinuedVERBtoPARTflyVERBthroughADPtheDETairNOUNtooADVfastADVtoPARTallowVERBofSCONJhisPRONsayingVERBanythingPRONtoPARTcomfortVERBherPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 Princessdet
2PrincessPrincessPROPNNumber=Sing13 utterednsubj
3,,PUNCT_5 findingpunct
4ononSCONJ_5 findingmark
5findingfindVERBVerbForm=Ger2 Princessacl
6herselfherselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes5 findingobj
7ininADP_11 talonscase
8anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art9 eagledet
9eagleeagleNOUNNumber=Sing11 talonsnmod:poss
10’s'sPART_9 eaglecase
11talonstalonNOUNNumber=Plur5 findingobl
12,,PUNCT_2 Princesspunct
13utteredutterVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 shrieksdet
15mostmostADVDegree=Sup19 shrieksadvmod
16heartheartNOUNNumber=Sing18 breakingcompound
17--PUNCT_16 heartpunct
18breakingbreakingNOUNNumber=Sing19 shriekscompound
19shrieksshriekNOUNNumber=Plur13 utteredobj
20andandCCONJ_21 criescc
21criescryNOUNNumber=Plur19 shrieksconj
22;;PUNCT_25 captorpunct
23butbutCCONJ_25 captorcc
24herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs25 captornmod:poss
25captorcaptorNOUNNumber=Sing13 utteredobl
26,,PUNCT_28 touchedpunct
27thoughthoughSCONJ_28 touchedmark
28touchedtouchVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass13 utteredparataxis
29bybyADP_31 distresscase
30herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs31 distressnmod:poss
31distressdistressNOUNNumber=Sing28 touchedobl
32,,PUNCT_35 abandonpunct
33wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin35 abandonaux
34notnotPARTPolarity=Neg35 abandonadvmod
35abandonabandonVERBVerbForm=Inf28 touchedconj
36hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs38 preynmod:poss
37lovelylovelyADJDegree=Pos38 preyamod
38preypreyNOUNNumber=Sing35 abandonobj
39,,PUNCT_41 continuedpunct
40andandCCONJ_41 continuedcc
41continuedcontinueVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin13 utteredparataxis
42totoPART_43 flymark
43flyflyVERBVerbForm=Inf41 continuedxcomp
44throughthroughADP_46 aircase
45thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art46 airdet
46airairNOUNNumber=Sing43 flyobl
47tootooADV_48 fastadvmod
48fastfastADVDegree=Pos43 flyadvmod
49totoPART_50 allowmark
50allowallowVERBVerbForm=Inf43 flyadvcl
51ofofSCONJ_53 sayingmark
52hishisPRONGender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs53 sayingnsubj
53sayingsayVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part50 allowadvcl
54anythinganythingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind53 sayingobj
55totoPART_56 comfortmark
56comfortcomfortVERBVerbForm=Inf54 anythingacl
57hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs56 comfortobj
58..PUNCT_13 utteredpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1findgerundthe Princess not said herePrincessa eagle's talonsvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic
2utter speech: otherpastthe Princessthe breaking shrieks and criesPrincess's captor oblvn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent shriek=Topic
3touchparticipleby Princess's distressvn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4not abandonwouldeagle's lovely preyvn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme prey=Source
5continuepastvn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6flyto-infinitivethe airfast propertyvn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location
7allowto-infinitivevn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
8say speech: assertgerundeagleanythingvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic
9comfortto-infinitiveeagle not said herePrincessvn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
10distressPrincessnom distress «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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